The Crocodile Bird

Rendell, Ruth

ISBN 10: 0091776368 / ISBN 13: 9780091776367

Published by Hutchinson / Random House, London, 1993

About this Item

First edition, first impression. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, WITHOUT DEDICATION, IN BLACK PEN, ON TITLE PAGE. Some very slight edge wear to top and bottom of jacket and spine, Waterstone's 'Signed First Edition' band, top corners slightly bruised, not price clipped (£14.99), no other inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy, looks almost unread. 298pp. Liza, a naive 17-year-old, is forced to leave home by her obsessively protective mother, Eve. Their life together is at an end, because Eve is a murderess. This explores the theme of innocence and experience, while retaining the constant tension of violent death. Classic Ruth Rendell (1930-2015). Scarce signed.

Seller Inventory # 010717

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Crocodile Bird
• Publisher: Hutchinson / Random House, London
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0091776368
• ISBN 13: 9780091776367
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Jacket by Michael Trevillion
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

Synopsis

Liza, a naive 17-year-old, is forced to leave home by her obsessively protective mother, Eve. Their life together is at an end, because Eve is a murderess. This explores the theme of innocence and experience, while retaining the constant tension of violent death. By the author of "Live Flesh".

From the Publisher

A mother and a daughter live quietly in the rustic gatehouse of Shrove House, an isolated British estate. Their life seems perfectly ordinary except that daughter Liza has been kept isolated from the outside world for all of her sixteen years. And that he has seen her beautiful mother commit murder... more than once. Now, as the police come searching for a missing man, Liza's sheltered, strange world begins to fall apart. Piece by piece she will reveal her mother's tale of betrayal, desire, and obsession. Step-by-step we discover how much like mother, like daughter she is.